Chess: The women content creators bringing the ancient game into the digital age.

Women content creators are helping chess shake its image as an "old man's game" and bring it into the digital age.

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So she started streaming chess - and now it's turned into a career.

A woman grandmaster - the highest female-only chess title - Zhou was pursuing a degree in economics and mathematics at the University of Toronto at the time.

She launched her own stream in 2020, after first making guest appearances on a friend's channel, and the timing was impeccable.

A few months later, the Netflix show The Queen's Gambit was released. Along with the pandemic, it led to a chess boom.